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India Bets Big on Carbon Capture, Utilisation And Storage To Avoid EU Tax
- Feb 01, 2026 22:28 pm IST
- Reported by: Shreya Ghosh
Carbon is the elemental backbone of life on Earth and, increasingly, of our biggest climate challenge. The sixth element in the periodic table, carbon, forms the structure of every organic molecule - from DNA to proteins to fossil fuels.
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Mamata Banerjee Approaches Supreme Court Against Poll Body's Bengal Roll Revision
- Feb 01, 2026 21:32 pm IST
- Reported by: Shreya Ghosh
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has taken her battle against the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to the highest court, filing a personal writ petition in the Supreme Court on Sunday.
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"Truly Sorry": Kolkata Restaurant Apologises For Serving Beef To YouTuber
- Feb 01, 2026 21:30 pm IST
- Indo-Asian News Service
Popular Park Street bar-cum-restaurant Olypub has issued a formal apology after unintentionally serving beef instead of goat meat to YouTuber Sayak Chakraborty, prompting him to withdraw his police complaint against the waiter involved.
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"No Economic Strategy, Statesmanship": P Chidambaram On Union Budget 2026
- Feb 01, 2026 20:50 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
Former Union finance minister P Chidambaram dismissed the Union budget 2026 presented today by Nirmala Sitharaman, saying it does not address any of the major challenges pointed out in the economic survey.
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PM Modi's Dera Visit Signals BJP's Dalit Outreach In Punjab
- Feb 01, 2026 20:38 pm IST
- Reported by: Gurpreet Singh Chhina
Budget over, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, just hours later, flew to Dera Sachkhand Ballan near Jalandhar in Punjab to pay tributes to Guru Ravidas, combining religious reverence with political strategy in the state's Dalit heartland.
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'Budget For Nation, Not Just For Poll-Bound States': Kiren Rijiju To NDTV
- Feb 01, 2026 20:34 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
In an exclusive interview with NDTV, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju dismissed opposition claims that the 2026 Union Budget was tailored to upcoming elections in certain states.
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45-Year-Old Man Kills Wife, 2 Daughters In UP, National Security Act Invoked
- Feb 01, 2026 19:47 pm IST
- Press Trust of India
The district administration has invoked the stringent National Security Act against the accused in a triple murder case in Shamli district, authorities said on Sunday.
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'Future-Ready Budget For Viksit Bharat': Piyush Goyal To NDTV
- Feb 01, 2026 19:30 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal called the Union Budget 2026 "future-ready" for a developed India (Viksit Bharat) by 2047.
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Budget Will Help Boost Semiconductor, AI Industries: Ashwini Vaishnaw To NDTV
- Feb 01, 2026 19:29 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
Praising the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, IT and Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said it will help take India's semiconductor industry to the next step and also boost investment in data centres.
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Manipur NDA MLAs Fly To Delhi Amid Buzz Over Government Formation
- Feb 01, 2026 18:53 pm IST
- Reported by: Ratnadip Choudhury
MLAs of the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Manipur flew to Delhi today to meet the party leadership, amid buzz over government formation in the state which is under the President's Rule for nearly a year.
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"Astonishing In Election Year": Shashi Tharoor Says Kerala Neglected In Budget
- Feb 01, 2026 18:43 pm IST
- Edited by: Anindita Sanyal
Congress's Shashi Tharoor, who has been making headlines lately over what many see as his softened stance towards the NDA government, was extremely critical of the Union budget 2026 presented today by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
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Union Budget 2026: What Fills Government Coffers And How The Money Is Spent
- Feb 01, 2026 18:27 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also tabled the Budget documents which provide a fractional break-up of every Re 1 that comes into the government coffers and how it gets spent.
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"Fails Economic Strategy Test": P Chidambaram's Union Budget Report Card
- Feb 01, 2026 18:21 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
Congress MP P Chidambaram was blunt in his review of the 2026 budget - tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman - and said he had been left "astonished" by a speech that did not answer questions arising from economic challenges.
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Budget 2026 Supercharges Solar, Storage, Nuclear, But Skips EV Fast Lane
- Feb 01, 2026 17:59 pm IST
- Reported by: Shreya Ghosh
In a fiscal flex that marries atomic ambition with eco-innovation, India's 2026-27 budget drops a Rs 20,000 crore bombshell on carbon capture tech while extending duty-free imports for nuclear power plants until 2035.
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"Wait And Watch": Lawrence Bishnoi Gang Warns After Rohit Shetty House Firing
- Feb 01, 2026 17:54 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
A member of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi's gang, in a social media post, claimed responsibility for the firing at director Rohit Shetty's Mumbai residence in the early hours of Sunday.
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Weeks After Marrying 9-Year Lover, She Killed Him As Parents Held Him Down
- Feb 01, 2026 17:40 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
Two months after a wedding that had capped a nine-year love story, a marriage in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly collapsed after the death of the husband. 33-year-old Jitendra Kumar Yadav was found hanging in a rented house in the city's Izzatnagar area.
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Northeast's Industry Bodies Welcome Budget 2026, Support For Tourism
- Feb 01, 2026 17:26 pm IST
- Reported by: Ratnadip Choudhury
Businesses in the northeast have welcomed the Union Budget 2026 and called it a growth-oriented document which is aligned with the region's development trajectory.